Buildings That Can Heal in the Wake of Trauma
So far, trauma-informed design has been applied to a relatively narrow set of building types, but there’s hope its influence will expand into wider use in residential and commercial buildings. Office spaces, currently reeling from the Covid-era embrace of remote work patterns, are particularly ripe for TID revaluation, says HKS’s Peavey, as employers and workers alike increasingly acknowledge that going to the office is fundamentally for social interaction — which TID emphasizes as a factor of health — and not pounding out work.